I am now unable to play any cd. I do not know what happened. I was putting new pictures on cds when drive D stopped working. It disappeared from My Computer. Drive E is still there, where I burn cd's, which I was not using. It runs, I can hear it , but game cds will not play. When I put a music cd in drive D, i tunes want to be the default player, I click no, I have always used Windows Media Player. These music cds have always played in Media Player before. Would a System Restore work? Fixed music cd problem. DVD RW Drive (F:) is playing cds now.

Edited by kazzmo (January 01, 2013 10:50 AM)

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InlandAZ, In Device Manager under DVD/CDiRom drives I have two listed and I do not know which one I should uninstall, they both offer that option.1-OptiarcDVD+-RWAD-5170s-ScSIcdRom Device 2. TSSTCorp CDRW DVD TS-H493B SCSI CdRom Device. Which one should I uninstall? I have had this happen before, but I do not remember how I got the D drive to reappear. Disc are working in F drive and I burned a disc just to make sure that everything, game disc, music disc and burning disc all work in this drive. I would like to have D drive back since that is the drive that has always preformed these functions. Please give me your advice.

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Try uninstalling that one first. When you boot back up, Windows will "see" the drive and reinstall it.

I'm working on a laptop for a friend and had the same thing happen yesterday. The optical drive just disappeared. After uninstalling it did not work, I did a System Restore and it reappeared and is doing fine again. So, if uninstalling it in your Device manager doesn't work, just do a System Restore.

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Jenny100 and Draclvr, I have, Floppy Drive A,DVD/CDRW Drive E and DVDRW Drive F(which used to be Drive D)until it disappeared and removable Disk G,H,I and J. I do not remember what Drive F was before it took the place of Drive D. Draclvr, if I uninstall Device 2, will that make Drive F disappear since it has taken the place of Drive D? My three drives were A,D and E. Now they are A, E and F.

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I do not remember what Drive F was before it took the place of Drive D. Draclvr, if I uninstall Device 2, will that make Drive F disappear since it has taken the place of Drive D? My three drives were A,D and E. Now they are A, E and F.

If Drive F "took the place of Drive D," it sounds like all that happened is that the drive changed its drive letter. You know which drive you put the disc in when it was D, right? It's the same drive that now shows up as F, right?

I'm going to assume that's what happened.

Here's how to set it back:

Click the Start button in the lower left of your Desktop. Typediskmgmt.mscin the Start Search. When it shows up at the top of the list, right-click the listing and choose to Run as Administrator. Enter your password to get permission to make changes.

By the way, if you install a CD emulation program like Daemon-Tools or Alcohol 52%, it will probably bump up your CD drive letters the next time you reboot. That's what happened back when I used Daemon-Tools in Windows 98 years ago. To create the virtual CD drive, it gives it the lowest drive letter that is not a hard drive letter.

If the drive letter D: is not available, something else is using it. It could be a program that emulates a CD drive besides doing something else. Some disc burning programs will also emulate a CD drive and reserve a drive letter -- not just programs like the Daemon-Tools and Alcohol programs I mentioned earlier, but even programs like Nero.